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Real Change Newspaper
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January 30, 2008, Vol. 15, No. 6
Headlines:
- Deal Dead at Ballard Apts? [Lock Vista Apartments]. Philanthropist landlords’ bid to sell has disrupted lives, tenants say…Tad Van Patten is a tenant leader at Lock Vista, where one-quarter of the units have gone vacant since last summer. Page 5. Photo by Mark Sullo
- Hot Rocks. The Earth’s heat could be the next big source of renewable energy, says engineer and former Port of Seattle commissioner Lawrence Molloy. Molloy: “It is as in the 1990s with the wind farms.” Page 4. Photo by Luke McGuff
- Change Agent: Eva Walker, Page 3
- Vendor of the Week: James Fuller, Page 9. Photo by JP Gritton
- Entreat the State: Assistance from the Washington legislature could help end homelessness. Page 2
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State money can help end homelessness now. Affordable housing is vanishing. Poverty is worsening. What can the legislature do? By Mia Wells, Page 2
Director’s Corner by Timothy Harris, Page 2 [RE: Homeless encampment clearances / sweeps]
Change Agent: Eva Walker, Page 3
- Picture: In harmony: Eva Walker puts her talents to good use.
- Photo by Revel Nt
Just Heard…Page 3
- Condo quandry. [SHB 2014, SB 5031] by Cydney Gillis
- Policing the cops. [RE: Seattle Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability] by Cydney Gillis
Drivers reject union contract [Metro transit] by R.V. Murphy, Page 3
Fewer hours, more need. [RE: Family and Adult Service Center FASC] by Rosette Royale, Page 3, 6
Geothermal heats up. Initially costly, a form of clean energy is gaining new attention by Susanna Pehrson, Page 4
- Picture: Former Port of Seattle commissioner Lawrence Molloy says that heat energy underlying parts of Washington could become, in the next few decades, a massive source of renewable energy.
- Photo by Luke McGuff
For the owners, it’s just business. Condo deal may be dead, but tenants are still ruffled by Cydney Gillis, Page 5
- Picture: Tad Van Patten is a leader within a tenants’ organization at Lock Vista, the Ballard building that faces an uncertain future. More than 50 tenants of the 191-unit complex have moved out since plans for a condo conversion were announced last year.
- Photo by Mark Sullo
Recognizing the “soul wound” of war. Therapist encourages veterans to eschew meds for “holistic” approach by JP Gritton, Pages 5, 10
- Picture: Soul Wound: Dr. Ed Tick applies Western and Eastern healing modalities to aid ailing vets.
- Photo courtesy of Paula Griffin
Trespass procedures get hearing by Adam Hyla, Page 6
- Picture: John Bayly to city: Don’t take what’s left of my life.
- Photo by Andrea Lee
Vendor of the Week: James Fuller by JP Gritton, Page 9
A Golden Moment of Hope. Novelist Tahmima Anam on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 by Robin Lindley, Pages 7, 11
- Picture: Inspired by the revolutionary activities of her parents and grandmother, Tahmima Anam drew on accounts of the Bangladeshi war of independence from Pakistan to write A Golden Age.
- Photo by Zahedul I. Khan
Longing for Single Name Status. Book Review: Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism by Peter LaSalle. Review by Alex Freeburg, Page 8
Book Review: The Best American Comics 2007. Edited by Chris Ware, Series Editor Anna Elizabeth Moore. Review by Rosette Royale, Page 8
Poem: Normal Living by Elizabeth Romero, Page 8
Adventures in Irony. Great ideas, mediocre minds by © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Faith, Culture, Politics. Life at the edge of total war by Rev. Rich Lang, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 9
Poem: Children’s Hour: Colorado, 1999 / Virginia, 2007 by Anitra Freeman, Page 10
Calendar, Page 12
- Picture: David Domke, UW Professor and author of The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political Weapon. Iranian American Community Alliance is hosting a lecture with guests David Domke and Arzoo Osanloo, author of There are No Ladies Here: Women’s Rights and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Picture: 2,631 and counting… [One Night Count]
Seattle Human Services Department deputy director Alan Painter briefs a team of volunteers walking through a section of downtown Seattle finding homeless people sleeping outside in sub-freezing temperatures in the early morning hours of Jan. 25, 2008. Two thousand six hundred and thirty-one people are living outside in King County, according to the count. The ranks of the homeless appear to be growing: approximately 900 volunteers canvassing streets, parks, greenbelts, and buses found 15 percent more people in areas that had been counted last year. Thousands more are in nightly shelters.
Copy of issue was obtained from microfiche in the University of Washington Suzzallo Library.